Flor Edwards nació y creció en la secta Los niños de Dios. En su infancia aprendió solo lo que el líder, sus padres y la comunidad le enseñaron, como que Dios pondría punto final al mundo en 1993. Te invitamos a conocer la vida de esta escritora.
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00:00Where would we be without love?
00:04How many children do you have, Fiona?
00:05The apocalypse was going to happen when the world was going to burn up into oblivion
00:09and only people who were saved would go up to heaven
00:12and everyone else would either stay in purgatory or go to hell.
00:15So it was our job to offer every single person on earth salvation.
00:20Love is going to conquer the world.
00:22I have seven.
00:23Seven children.
00:25Love is going to conquer the world.
00:27Nobody joins a cult.
00:28Nobody wakes up in the morning and says,
00:30you know what, I'm going to join this cult.
00:32No one even knew it was a cult until way later.
00:34Conquer the world.
00:36I believe it.
00:37I believe it.
00:38I believe it.
00:38I believe it.
00:39Love is going to conquer the world.
00:41My name is Flora Edwards and I grew up in the apocalyptic cult known as the Children of God.
01:01The Children of God was a group that started on the shores of Huntington Beach.
01:05I always say it had very humble beginnings.
01:10Father David was the leader.
01:12He was the son of an evangelist preacher.
01:16And he came out to California and wanted to give the young people something to live for.
01:21And it just was a bunch of young people during the 1960s trying to get off of drugs and as they put it high on Jesus.
01:29I always point out the three main teachings of the Children of God.
01:32One, it was apocalyptic.
01:34So they believed that the world was going to end.
01:37The date for the end was 1993.
01:39The second one was that he believed that the West was evil.
01:44And the third belief, he sort of wanted to adopt this new belief system that sex was a part of God's love.
01:50So he had some very controversial beliefs around sex and the body.
01:54People always want to know how did it turn from something that was good and innocent to something that was actually quite dark.
02:14My answer to that is the adults had to find a way to control the children because we weren't there on our own free will.
02:21They were raising us to basically save the world.
02:24There were a lot of reports of incest within the group or encouraging children to have sex with other children.
02:42There were incidents where even within Father David's own family, incest,
02:48he had this conflict between his commitment to serve God and his sexual desire.
02:54He had drinking problems, he was a sex addict, narcissist, just all the different things that come with the cult leader.
03:03He was also very charismatic, he was also very intelligent, very brilliant.
03:07He would not have been able to gather such a large group of people if he didn't have some sort of enticing quality to him.
03:15Please can I be a member of your club?
03:17Leaving the cult was very difficult because we had been completely cut off from the world.
03:22My parents had no education, no money.
03:25Everyone inside was terrified to leave.
03:27It's like they stay and have this community of people or they leave and die, basically.
03:33And a lot of them actually, they ended up committing suicide when they left.
03:35I did realize that there was tremendous beauty in my childhood.
03:46People always want like a sad sob story.
03:49There was awful things that went on, but this was my story to tell.
03:54There was awful things that went on, but this was my story to tell.